Rights activists have called on the government and Muslim leaders to take legal action against a 41-year-old Malaysian man who controversially married an 11-year-old girl from Narathiwat province and prevent such a case from happening again. The group issued an open letter calling for an amendment to Thai law setting the minimum age of marriage […]
The Justice Ministry is expected to finish in September considering the country’s first-ever Civil Partnership Bill to provide same-sex couples with similar rights to married couples. Pitikan Sithidej, chief of the Right and Liberties Protection Department, said the department is working with stakeholders on the bill. Full story: Bangkok Post APINYA WIPATAYOTIN BANGKOK POST
An Islamic official should not have solemnized a marriage in southern Thailand between a 41-year-old Malaysian man and an 11-year-old Thai girl, local officials said Monday amid furor in neighboring Malaysia over the wedding. Officials in both countries said the case was being investigated. News of the June 18 wedding in Sungai Kolok, a district […]
Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail of Malaysia has expressed concerns over a report that an 11-year-old Thai girl has been taken as a wife by a Malaysian man 30 years her senior, according to Malaysian media. It reported that she has instructed officials of the Social Welfare Department to conduct a thorough investigation […]
A Chinese man recently made national news headlines for his years-long struggle to find a suitable wife. He claims to have asked around 80,000 women if they wanted to date him over the last eight years, but got rejected no less than 80,000 times. Ouch! 31-year-old Niu Xiangfeng has been described as a “dating madman” […]
BANGKOK — Got questions about your farang? Good news: The government announced Friday it may open a pilot learning center in Khon Kaen province for Thai women marrying foreign men. After visiting Germany to meet a network of Thai women in Europe, a top social welfare official said the idea is being considered based on […]
Two women’s advocacy groups are urging the new Malaysian government to fulfill an electoral pledge to declare 18 the legal age to wed and ban child marriage because, they say, this violates human rights. Religious conservatism, patriarchal beliefs and reasons of sexual impropriety are the main drivers of child marriage in Malaysia, the NGOs Sisters […]
Eight Indian nationals have been arrested for involvement in a scam that used the names of 300 Thai women in forged marriage licences. None of the women were aware that they were ‘married’. The women are residents of Saraburi’s Wang Muang distrct, deputy Tourist Police Bureau chief Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn said on Wednesday […]
